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#socialclimatechange

Reimagining civic discourse through technology-forward theater
Person directing a wind orchestra with arms on the air
2025 Artfinity Gaze to the Stars. Photo by Caroline Alden.

Solar Return for Change

Amplifying climate research through collaborative jazz performance
Two people in front of a piece showing small different symbols
Suket Dhir points to a detail on a jamdani weaving at the 2025 Artfinity ACT Lecture with Abhijit Banerjee. Photo: Gearoid Dolan.

Cheyenne Olivier & Suket Dhir

Weaving economic narratives through a traditional Bengali craft
Ana Rajcevic. Photo: Matjaz Rust.

Ana Rajcevic

Exploring embodiment through animal-inspired neuroprosthetics
The Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia: Reimagining Cities within the Brazilian Rainforest, Kent Larson. Image courtesy of the artist

The Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia: Reimagining Cities within the Brazilian Forests

Envisioning sustainable Amazonian cities at COP30
In a gray space, fungi grow from a burgundy spot on the ground
Fungi prototype. Image courtesy of the artist.

Of Boar and Fungi: A Nuclear Love Affair

Exploring radioactive entanglements in post-Chernobyl forests
Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Image courtesy of the artist.

Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Exploring migration, identity, and belonging through German theater
Man with glasses and a beard looks straight to the audience with a faint smile.
Mark Rau Headshot. Image courtesy of the artist

Musical Acoustics, Synthesis, and Audio Effects

Bridging sound science and musical creativity
Green foliage inside a box in a dark room
Rendering for Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience. Courtesy of Joshua Higgason.

Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience

Blurring the digital and natural through immersive experience
TRACES, by Balsa Crosetto Piazzi & Giorgis Ortiz, 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Photo: Marcos Guiponi

Traces

My Onliness. Credit: One Eight Theater, Soho Think Tank, and IRT Theater.

My Onliness

A nonconformist and playful performance about the possible nightmares of the near future
Es Devlin draws Come Home Again, Tate Modern, 2024. Image courtesy of Es Devlin.

Es Devlin

Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry
Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.

Golden City

An extended musical composition for Large Ensemble, inspired by California’s rich and complex history.
A black and white photograph of two people holding a partner acrobatics position.
Professor Jen Light performs partner acrobatics

Thinking on Your Feet

Exploring the potentials of embodied education through dance
Orchestra playing at a stage with violet light setting.
KINETIC. Photo credit: Ben Doyle

Kinetic Ensemble

“Agile virtuosity and vibrant sound… brilliantly executed” — Arts and Culture Texas
Jaffer and Ivi posing for the camera sitting at a desk with a bookshelf behind them.
Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

Queer Assemblies

Three installations evoking famed architect Bruce Goff’s eclectic palette
Derek David. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist.

Di Fayerdike Libe – Passionate Love – די פֿײַערדיקע ליבע

Exploring modern love through Yiddish music and culture
Landscape image featuring large rock formations and a refined structure similar to a house made out of magma.
Magma Matter, Cristina Parreño Alonso, Courtesy of the artist.

Magma Matter

Reconsidering the aesthetics of function
The Attestation by Jeanette Andrews. Credit HErickson/MIT.

Jeanette Andrews

Exploring the bounds of perception and interpretation through magic
In the midst of a teal background, Michael Mayo smiles while standing casually with his gaze to the horizon.
Michael Mayo. Image credit: Lauren Desberg

Michael Mayo

Layers of heavenly harmonizing, hard-hitting beatboxing, and heartfelt crooning
Ekene Ijeoma, featuring Dr. Kristín Taylor, Dr. Bryan Stanley, Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 12 (2015) 2021. Software-generated score, incarceration data, piano, machine-plotted ink drawings, duration 18:12 min. Installation view, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA Photo by Colin Conces courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts

Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and performance
A man holds a mirror up to his face that shows a distorted image of himself on a computer screen.
Albert Figurt, courtesy of the artist.

Albert Figurt

Exploring the many lives of the Desktop Narrative format
Spatial Frequencies drawing project, MIT Museum Studio 2022. Photo credit: Sarah Schwettmann.

Drawing Human Experience

Joshua Bennett performs America Will Be (2022).

The People’s Poetry Archive

Uniting voices with a living archive of African diaspora poetry
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